Re: system hosed by udev in dist-upgrade
cross posting this to deb-powerpc, b/c I think this may be a
ppc-specific problem
On 1/22/06, Linas Zvirblis <0x0007@gmail.com> wrote:
> Matt Price wrote:
>
> > So it semes to me I have to somehow temporarily run udev, or
> > temporarily disable udev, or something, so that I can create the
> > /dev/hda devices I need to mount the relevant partitions. BUt I don't
> > know how to do that.
>
> Try running MAKEDEV, it should give all the missing devices the old
> fashioned way. If that does not work, "mknod /dev/hda b 3 0".
>
>
tried this with no success -- /dev/hda10 still doesn't get recreated.
Let me reiterate the main problem -- I tried to dist-upgrade my system
(debian sid, about 6 months outdated, running on a blue & white Mac
g3), and when udev wouldn't install, I apt-getted a newer kernel to
try again; rebooted, & now my system doesn't find /dev/hda -- which is
where my /var is located, which means apt-get doesn't work at all, so
udev can't be installed...
just tried creating the devices manually as per Linas's suggestion but
no go. took a peek in syslog and it seems the cdrom drive is being
identified as /dev/hda; the native pci bus is invisible. tried
modprobing the generic ide driver but, while that succeeded, no
/dev/hd devices were created. So it appears to me that my ide bus is
now invisible somehow.
tried lspci and it seems some things are missing -- e.g. no ethernet
device is showing (and in fact ifup eth0 gives a "no such device"
error); but there is a listing for
Silicon Image, Inc.. PCI 0646 (rev 5)
Not sure if that is my ide controller or not.
Anyway, so something fundamental appears to be screwed up, and I"m not
sure how to proceed next. I of course appreciate any and all advice
on how to proceed. thanks!
Matt
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